Priya Anand Wiki, Age, Boyfriend, Husband, Family, Biography & More

Priya Anand is an Indian model and actress who appears in Bollywood and South Indian films. She is known for her films “Leader,” “180,” “Fukrey,” “Ezra,” “Orange,” “LKG,” “Adithya Varma,” and many more.

Wiki/Biography

Priya Anand was born as ‘Priya Bharadwaj Anand’ on Wednesday, 17 September 1986 (age 33 years; as in 2019) in Chennai. Her zodiac sign is Virgo. She was raised in Chennai and Hyderabad. Her family moved to the USA, around 19 years back. She did her Major in Communications (minor in business, journalism and African studies) from the State University of New York at Albany (SUNY Albany). She came to India in 2008, and since then, she has been staying with her grandparents in Chennai.

Priya Anand with her Grandmother

Physical Appearance

Height (approx.): 5′ 4″

Eye Colour: Dark Brown

Hair Colour: Black

Family, Caste & Husband

Priya Anand’s father’s name is Bharadwaj and her mother’s name is Radha. Her father is a Tamil, and her mother is half-Telugu and half-Marathi.

Priya Anand with her mother

She is the only child of her parents.

Career

Being fascinated by movies, since her childhood, she wanted to get into technical aspects of filmmaking and wanted to work as an assistant director to S. Shankar. Instead, she got into modelling and worked on a few advertisements such as Natural Maha Lacto (with Mahendra Singh Dhoni), Prince Jewellery Diamond Collection (Bharati Raja voice-over), Cadbury Dairy Milk (Diwali special), etc.

Priya was supposed to make her acting debut with the Tamil Film “Pugaippadam” (2010), but the film released 2 years later. Her first release came with the film “Vaamanan” (2009), in which she played the role of ‘Divya.’

Priya Anand- Vaamanan

Priya Anand made her Telugu debut with the film “Leader” (2010), in which she played the role of ‘Ratna Prabha.’

Priya Anand- Leader

She made her Bollywood debut with the film “English Vinglish” in 2012, in which she played the role of ‘Radha.’

Priya Anand in a scene from English Vinglish

She made her Malayalam debut with the film “Ezra” (2017) in the role of ‘Priya.’

Priya Anand-Ezra

She made her Kannada debut with the film “Raajakumara (2017)” as ‘Nandini.’

Priya Anand-Raajakumara

Controversy

On 20 April 2019, a twitterati labelled Anand as ‘bad luck’ to her co-stars Sridevi and J. K. Rithesh, who has acted with her in the movies “English Vinglish” and “LKG,” respectively. Citing the logic behind his statement, he said that both the actors died after acting with her. Anand replied that the troll’s comment was ‘insensitive.’ She further added-

But please know that what you say can really trigger a lot of pain in people. So before you make such comments I hope u take a second and practice having some empathy and restrain from such petty frivolous behavior”

Facts

She is fluent in 7 languages, which include Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Marathi, Hindi, English, and Spanish.

Sekhar Kammula spotted ‘Priya Anand’ on Facebook and invited her for an audition. After going through three auditions, she was selected for the lead role of ‘Ratna Prabha’ in the film “Leader” (2010).

On 20 June 2011, she was appointed as the brand ambassador of ‘Save the Children’ campaign for Tamil Nadu and Arunachal Pradesh.

Priya Anand during Save the Children Campaign

She is a huge fan of Sridevi. In the film “English Vinglish,” she got a chance to act with her idol. Talking about it, she says-

I signed this film just to be up and close to an artist who has influenced me and to be part of something that was so important to her. I’m doing this movie as her fan and I’m fortunate enough to play a very important part in her journey in the film.”

Priya Anand with Sridevi

She is an animal lover and owns a dog named ‘bumblebee.’

Priya Anand with her dog

The song “Aedho Saigirai,” the song from her debut film “Vaamanan” (2009), which featured her became an instant hit. The song was dubbed as the ‘Priya Song.’

She is a foodie and likes ice-creams.

In 2013, she campaigned for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India.

Priya Anand on as the brand ambassador of PETA

Priya is the brand ambassador of Deafenabled Foundation, which aids in to provide literacy in Indian sign languages.

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